What to do When Someone Dies

What to do When Someone Dies

The links below open up various pages that form a basic checklist for funeral arrangements and items that need be taken care of when someone dies. The estate information below does not cover every eventuality – only the most basic straightforward cases.

Please note, Funeral Guide will not be held responsible for any errors and or omissions. If your circumstances are complex or unusual or if you are in any doubt as to what action to take, you are advised to consult an attorney.

Quotes

“We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything.”

Author unknown.

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain"

Author unknown

"When we are forgotten, we cease to exist."

Lady of the lake, from the movie 'Merlin'

“Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.”

Peter D. Kramer, psychiatrist.

"I wasted time, now doth time waste me"

William Shakespeare

"We understand death only after it has laid its hands on someone we love."

Anne L. de Stael

"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."

Herman Melville

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

Herman Hesse

"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."

eskimo proverb

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

Ernest Hemingway, a few weeks before committing suicide.

“The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.”

Chinese saying

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us."

Helen Keller

“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

Richard bach, (Illusions)

“Dear world, I am leaving you because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries. Good luck."

George Sanders, suicide note 25 April 1972

“The soul takes flight to a world that is invisible, and there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”

Lady Jane Grey, the movie

"Tears are the words the heart can't express"

Author unknown

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."

Shakespeare

“It's natures way of telling you to slow down.”

Anonymous, (Cited as Madison Avenues latest definition of death.)

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

Kahlil Gibran

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds"

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

Og Mandino

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them"

Henri Matisse

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand"

unknown

"Tonight I feel so very small by the enormous loss of you"

Kate Shand

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

(Little Foxes, 1866)

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong - the amount of work is the same"

Carlos Castanada

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

"Fly, fly little wing, fly beyond imagining. Past the planets and the stars, leave this lonely world of ours. Escape the sorrow and the pain. And fly again"

Celine Dion

“It was not frightening to die sometime, it was frightening to die right now.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (cancer ward)

"Don't die with your music still inside you"

Wayne Dyer

"When you are born you cry and the world is happy, when you die the world cries and you are happy."

from the movie: One Last Thing

“I saw him now going the way of all flesh.”

John Webster

“His innings is over, his bat is laid down. Bowled out by deaths unerring ball.”

Unknown

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light."

Joaquin Miller

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable”

Erich Fromm

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Jean Paul Richter

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"

James Dean

I never held her, or heard her cry, and I wasn't ready to say goodbye.